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Israel Secretly Targets U.S. Lawmakers With Influence Campaign on Gaza War (New York Times)
Submitted by zwalker@benton.org on Wed, 06/05/2024 - 12:25OpenAI Insiders Warn of a ‘Reckless’ Race for Dominance (New York Times)
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Submitted by benton on Tue, 06/04/2024 - 16:14The Internet’s Final Frontier: Remote Amazon Tribes
The Marubo people have long lived in communal huts scattered hundreds of miles along the Ituí River deep in the Amazon rainforest. They have preserved this way of life for hundreds of years through isolation — some villages can take a week to reach. But since September, the Marubo have had high-speed internet thanks to Elon Musk. The 2,000-member tribe is one of hundreds across Brazil that are suddenly logging on with Starlink, the satellite-internet service from Space X.